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Stop trying to make this about Issa. This is not about Issa. This is about the IRS acting like the Checka and the Gestapo. Time and again this is the tactic used to try and excuse a Government that is acting outside of it's Constitutional authority. Savage the investigator. Labeling people is dismissive. Psychologically it can effective on the weak minded, but it's nothing more than a tactic. The goal is to polarize any potential threat to Obama as he craps all over the Bill of Rights.

You are part of the problem. Not the solution.

those making this about Issa is as bad as those making this about Obama.

This is about the IRS. how about we let the investigators investigate and stop assuming we know where it leads.

Once again the usual clown show of Fascists are jumping to conclusions to try and shield their messiah from accountability. They immediately accept whatever smokescreen excuse is given to them because the truth doesn't matter to them. There were 500 Tea Party, Christian and Jewish groups specifically targeted, harassed and intimidated. Their applications were sent to a special exempt organizations technical group. No "Progressive" groups received such scrutiny.

Stop trying to make this about Issa. This is not about Issa. This is about the IRS acting like the Checka and the Gestapo. Time and again this is the tactic used to try and excuse a Government that is acting outside of it's Constitutional authority. Savage the investigator. Labeling people is dismissive. Psychologically it can effective on the weak minded, but it's nothing more than a tactic. The goal is to polarize any potential threat to Obama as he craps all over the Bill of Rights.

You are part of the problem. Not the solution.

When Issa runs for re-election it will be all about him. That's what he wants, he wants the attention on him. Typical Washington grandstanding. The fact that you can't see anything bad in the Republicans tells me what kind of "Libertarian" you are. Hint: "libertarian" is not just a cooler sounding word for "Republican"

As I said on a similar thread, it should be quite easy for an institution like the IRS, whose main business is the collection and evaluation of numbers, to come up with a statistical report that details the number of groups applying for such status targeted in each of the categories, the number of groups that were targeted that were approved and the time it took to approve them, the number that weren't approved, the number of groups in each category that were asked for supplemental personal and/or private information related to donors as a follow-up to their application, etc.

Provide the information to the American people. They're smart enough to recognize if something is inherently wrong or if the practice is/was as benign as the Obama apologists would like everyone to believe.

Based on the information provided in this OP, I could just as easily conclude that by putting progressive and/or liberal sounding groups on a BOLO list was designed to fast-track them as opposed to target them for greater scrutiny. The details would clear that up.

Last edited by CanadaJohn; 06-25-13 at 02:40 PM.

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." William F. Buckley Jr.

With all due respect to the "reporter", in looking at the PDF Levin released there is one entry listing "progressive" and that organization was applying for (c)(3) status, not (c)(4). The "occupy" reference seems to be with regard to "Occupied Territory Advocacy". I didn't see anything related to Israel directly though it can be assumed that the aforementioned "Occupied Territory Advocacy" would cover that.

It should also be mentioned that the Tea Party reference and the Progressive reference are on completely different lists and that unlike the Progressive notation the document expressly directs Tea Party groups to be sent to a specific group while no such direction is indicated in the progressive notation.

When Issa runs for re-election it will be all about him. That's what he wants, he wants the attention on him. Typical Washington grandstanding. The fact that you can't see anything bad in the Republicans tells me what kind of "Libertarian" you are. Hint: "libertarian" is not just a cooler sounding word for "Republican"

Your Left/Right paradigm nonsense does not concern me. I don't operate in that little box.

This is not about Republicans/Democrats. Those are just labels that distract. The only thing you and your pals like PB care about is shielding the corruption emanating from the Obama Administration from any accountability. You only believe state controlled media lies. You are part of the problem. Not the solution.